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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Manitoba, Canada
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It could be my engine...help.
I thought I'd check with the experts...
A student of mine is running a '76 Malibu with a 350/350 combo, just like the one I've got in one of my trucks. He pulled the car over to my place to check-out why it wouldn't start. I put a charger on the now run-down battery and just let the car sit in a warm garage (You haven't had a February until you've had a Canadian February!). After a few hours I got the car running....here are the symptoms. It started hard, but started. At first it belched thick, black exhaust that left a mess on the garage floor. It wouldn't idle worth a rip, but I could drive it if I kept the rpm's up. It ran well on the highway, but stalled at every stop sign. When I got home the car smelled gassy and under the hood the right front fender tub and right hood had oil on them. I couldn't tell where the oil came from by looking at the engine, although there was a bit at the end of the snorkel. I checked in the carb and noticed some smoke inside of it and some parts above the venturis were oily. At first I was thinking that he had just flooded it in a big way, or that it is just running rich. The oil has me baffled. I'm thinking that this thing has really worn/cracked rings that are allowing oil blow-by and causing poor compression leading to poor idle. Any thoughts?
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Present: 2015 Tacoma. Yeah, not a GM, but I love it. 1969 GMC 32,000 - fix, drive, relax, fix... 2019 BMW R1250 GSA - Yahoooooooo 1979 Honda GL 1000 - retro touring at its best. Past: '05 Sierra 4x4 - Had 270,000 KM and running well when it was written-off by a stop sign runner. '94 F-150 from the "F word" company. I'll admit it...good truck. Sold what was left of it for $800 to a guy who came to pick it up at 11:00 PM with cash in hand. Hmm. '79 Sierra Grande (Black) organ donor - perfect rebuildable 4-bolt 350 and a good TH350. '76 Sierra Grande (Orange) - hate isn't too strong a word. Kid who bought it turned it into a hot rod. '68 C-10 R.I.P. - Dad's old truck...too far gone to resurrect. '59 C-50 - with hoist. Truck is gone, wife isn't. Nuff said. |
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